importing fonts

Joe Villari yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri May 9 08:29:00 2003


DOOOOOH, guess I'm brain dead this morning.

Thanks for cating that bone head error.

Joe

nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Joe Villari wrote:
> 
> 
>>How did you get fondu installed and working?
>>
>>Using the source code:
>>
>>[root@localhost fondu]# configure
>>bash: configure: command not found
>>
>>[root@localhost fondu]# ls
>>config.guess  fondu.c                     Makefile.in    tobin.1
>>config.sub    fondu.sourceforge.net.html  Makefile.Mac   tomacbinary.c
>>configure     frombin.1                   Makefile.unix  ufond.1
>>configure.in  frommacbinary.c             README         ufondbdf.c
>>crctab.c      install-sh                  readnfnt.c     ufond.c
>>dfont2res.1   LICENSE                     res2data.c     ufond.h
>>dfont2res.c   MacFiles.h                  showfond.1     ufondpfb.c
>>fondu.1       macfonts.h
>>
> 
> 
> That would be "./configure", not "configure"  the script is in the current
> directory (known as "./") , which is not in your $PATH environment
> variable - so as far as the shell knows, there is no "configure" command
> in any of the places it knows abaout.  
> 
> ./ should never be part of the $PATH as it could be a major security 
> issue.
> 
> 
>>Using rpm -i I didnot receive any errors:
>>
>>[root@localhost joev]# rpm -i fondu-030428-1.src.rpm
>>[root@localhost joev]#
>>
>>Now I get:
>>
>>[root@localhost joev]# fondu
>>bash: fondu: command not found
>>
>>Any Ideas?
>>
> 
> 
> You installed a source RPM, wich means that it installed uncompiled 
> sources into various places in /usr/src/rpm/.  
> 
> There are a bunch of things you can do to build those sources, but you 
> should probably try this for easyness:
> 
> # Get the rpmbuild package so we can build scr.rpm's
> apt-get install rpmbuild
> 
> # Build the fondu package make sure that command completes fully before 
> # doing the next command
> rpmbuild --rebuild /path/to/fondu-030428-1.src.rpm
> 
> # Install our newly build fondu pacakge
> rpm -Ivh /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/fondu-030428-1.ppc.rpm
> 
> -n